Dependent case by Agree: Ergative in Shawi (joint work with Emily Clem, UCSD)Ergative and accusative behave as dependent cases insofar as their appearance on a nominal depends on the presence of another nominal in the same domain. Recent work on case theory has taken the phenomenon of case dependency to challenge the idea that case is […]
Contact: Megha Sundara
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A MaxEnt analysis of the Beowulf meter If you would like to schedule a presentation, please email Ben Eischens (beischens@ucla.edu).
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Pragmatic Indecision Vague predicates are obligatorily tolerant (Wright 1973). For example, the positive form gradable adjective ‘long’ cannot be used to draw a sharp distinction, even when the facts of the context of utterance and the semantic properties of the sentence in which it occurs otherwise conspire to make such uses possible: in a context […]
s/z: Sociophonetic variations in American Media Discourses of Islam”; Eden Moyal. “Doing being non-binary: The sociophonetics of coming out Contact: Megha Sundara
Meet Tuesdays 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Zoom, but you can also hybridize with Professor Munro in person in the 2122A Conference Room each week – just bring your laptop.
A wug-test of Catalan consonant alternations
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